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Profound, dazzling, imaginative: As in his bestseller "The Book of the South," André Heller tells very special, profound and dazzling stories.

A world championship in hand folding, Shlomo Herzmansky's miraculous survival thanks to Himmler and a wild nocturnal mess of Lipizzaners in the middle of Vienna. Everything is possible, even the abolition of death can't really amaze you if you immerse yourself in the narrative world of André Heller. As in his bestseller "The Book of the South," André Heller mixes the anecdotal with the autobiographical, creating images and portraits of his world that bring the past into the present and distance into proximity. "A Maupassant, a Schnitzler, even a Joseph Roth of tomorrow could become André Heller." (Joachim Kaiser, Süddeutsche Zeitung).